Train the right way. Help each other. It's a form of socialism without the politics.
Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.
If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective
Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.
I think of myself as a beginner. Sometimes that's the whole joy. If you could just do it, there'd be no point in doing it.
If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.
I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.
The satsang is - within the mass culture - like little mushrooms here and there, and somebody, maybe a Christian and a Hindu and a Buddhist, come together; doesn't matter, because those are paths. They're paths to the One. But those satsangs are what the world needs. And as I say - heart to heart - that's what satsang is.
We do not accept a religion because it offers us certain rewards. The only thing that a religion can offer us is to be just what it, in itself, is: a greater meaning in ourselves, in our lives, and in our grasp of the nature of things. . . a religion exists for us only if, like a piece of poetry, it carries us away. It is not in any sense a 'hypothesis.
What I'm trying to do is be righteous. And when I say “righteous,” I don't mean God. You know? God- Righteous. I mean just when I wake up, I know I was honest to myself.
I don't think that if I had spent the time that I was in, say, Belgrade, writing about my time in Trieste, which is where I had just been, that would have been productive. I told myself: take extensive notes while you're there, do the research part of it, and then pray, pray, the muses will be available when the actual 'ready' happens.